Ever get stuck on a word?

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"Juice" is a big one for me. I will exclaim, for over ten minutes at a time, in a high-pitched, abrupt manner (as though a small dog's bark) "Juice!" I get Barbara (who is incredibly NT) to join in, and we will bounce the word off each other for a while - though she gets bored far sooner than I'd like.
Sometimes, I'll just get stuck on a word - often not of English origin - and say it for a while.
The problem I then have, of course, is that the word is no longer a word. You see, words are what you see before you - these successions of characters formed in such a way that our brains automatically associate them with a sound and a meaning. Yet a spoken word, a vocal word, holds meaning only for a short while, before it becomes a succession of sounds. Once that happens, it all falls apart and no word makes sense to me any more: rather, I say what I'm fairly certain is supposed to be a word, but which is now just noise. This is a big problem I have with spoken communication - I often just hear sounds, and the words themselves are lost on me.



I love quotes. I watch a lot of TV and read even more books, so this is a daily occurance for me. A character will say something that, for one of many reasons, I will just enjoy on a simple, linguistic level. The quote in my signature is a good example of this (I am often set off, if not by the original scene, then by "rice pudding" in any capacity). Thankfully, Barbara (who I live with) has similar tastes to me, so to a degree she will put up with this persistent quoting and has even picked up the habit slightly - if she thinks a scene in a book she's reading will play into my quotes fondness, she will find me and read the scene aloud - and I will, sometimes, spend several minutes repeating a favourite line.
I am an incredibly visual-verbal person. My mind is all words and pictures - but the words are there, in front of me, like text. When I think a sentence or a word, I actually imagine myself writing or typing it.
Where possible, I prefer to watch TV on videotape or DVD, so that I can rewind a particular sentence or exchange and listen to it two or three times. Sometimes, I feel as though I need to relive a sentence before I can move on. This also applies in real life, which sadly leaves me playing the bit of conversation in my head again and again, while the actual conversation carries on around me.